No leverage has the highest ROI percentage wise. I would look at your probability of system to win again because there are HFT firms making millions of trades a day trying to get an average of a fraction of a pip in profit on a trade. So if you ...

There is a BIG difference between having a leverage of 1:100 and 1:3000. The equity in your account will be wiped out with 1:3000. Why would you even mention trading with 0.01 lots? That's not true. If your SL is hit, you lose $1 and you lost the ...

Low leverage is ALWAYS better and I'll give a good example. If your account loses 50%, it requires a 100% gain to break even. If your account loses 10%, it requires just an 11.1% gain to break even.

Agree with OP. Stock prices are still set to go higher as long as the world continues to develop and grow in population. Over 50% of earnings from the S&P 500 are from OTHER countries. The US stock market is full of multinational companies and ...

Ok then if it is probable you would have a bunch of people make money and then make bigger and bigger bets until making money is no longer probable. The market does NOT trade within a loop, why would you think that? The masses (i.e. retailers) do ...

That's not true. You can trade with just 5k in currency by using micro-lots. Most people are satisfied if they make 5%-10% return on their investments a year. So a $5,000 investment going to $5,100 after a year is great. It is better to make $100 ...

You're asking the wrong question. You should be asking what would the theoretical ROI percentage wise would be. Certainly a lot higher than higher leveraged positions. All you're doing here is trying to justify a highly leveraged position. It's not ...

I think that you can't make the determination on what's probable or not in short timespans. Why would you think otherwise?

No matter what the chart is, it'll look as if a pattern exists when in reality you're just looking at random white noise.

Are you kidding me? You avoid negative balances by not being highly leveraged! That's the answer to your question. Anything more than 2x leverage in the currency market is asking for trouble.

Absolutely wrong. Patience will only slow the descent of your account to zero. The key to start making money is to admit that you cannot predict where the markets are headed in the short term. You CANNOT consistently make money in Forex trading ...

Just because you can make 2000% in 2-3 days doesn't mean that it will happen. I can also win the lottery with one ticket. The same thing can be achieved by putting $500 in an account rather than 50 bucks. It's not about placing as many trades as you ...

Of course that's random. It's called confirmation bias. You're looking at hundreds of charts and only picking the ones that fit your ideas and avoiding the one's that don't. Go ahead and trade based off of that. I can guarantee you that you'll fail ...

The OP is absolutely correct. Forex is very random, especially in any timespan over the course of 30 minutes. When you get into bigger timespans such as weeks and months, it gets much less random and more based off fundamentals. The reason why so ...

No, you are completely wrong. My calculator shows that 20:1 leverage has a steep negative ROI. It doesn't matter what kind of "superior" risk management skills the person uses. Stops will slow the trend towards zero but it also decreases the ...

The difference is that the $100 account would have to take on 10 times more leverage to have the same position size as the $1000 account. The $100 account is likely a gambler that's extremely likely to lose everything through high leverage. If a ...

You're completely missing the point. Almost nobody is taking $1,000 and taking a 100k position while they have over 99k in their bank account ready to replenish loses. What's happening is someone's life savings is $1,000 and they trade a 100k ...

Then use IB or CITI FX PRO if you're so concerned about your broker going BK. Citigroup is a 162 Billion dollar company that's too big to fail, I don't think worrying about your broker going bankrupt is a very big issue. The vast majority of traders ...

You obviously didn't learn from your mistakes. While commissions can't blow up your account, they'll however erode anyone's account trading anything less than 100 pips. If commission is 0.4 pips and each trade is 100 pips. That means you have to ...

You're looking at it wrong. If you make a trade where the gain is 0 pips, your balance after a 60 cent commission on would be $9,999.40 verses $9,988.00 for 20x the position. The huge effect of this can clearly be seen on the calculator on the first ...